Improvement in package-bands



'R. TRAUTMANN.

Package-Bands.

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TTNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

RALPH TRAUTMANN,

on NEW YORK, N. Y.

lM PROVEMENT IN PACKAGE-BANDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 210,439, dated December 3, 1878; application filed May 11, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH TRAUTMANN, of the city of New Yorlg'county of New York, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Tie-Band for Packages, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a face view of my improved tieband, showing it closed around a package. Fig. 2 is a face view of the same, showing it partly closed; and Fig. 3 is a detail crosssection of its folded head-piece. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are similar views, respectively, of a modification of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

This invention relates to'a new flexible tieband for packages of envelopes, gloves, cuffs, hosiery, piece-goods, and other things; and consists in constructing such tie-band with one or more parallel incisions at one end, and with a folding head-piece at the other end, all as hereinafter more fully described.

. vIn the accompanying drawing, the letter A represents my improved tie-band, made of paper, pasteboard, woven fabric, or other equivalent flexible material.

The same is made with two parallel incisions, a 1), near one end, as shown in Fig. 1, and with a head or enlargement, d, at the other end. This head or enlargement d is wider than the neck-piece 6, directly contiguous thereto, and wider also than the length of the incisions a b. For closing this band the projecting sides g. of the head-piece d are folded under the middle thereof into a narrow strip, as in Fig. 2, so that the head-piece can be pushed through the incisions a b beneath the strap f, that is formed between them, and

after having been passed beneath the strap f V the head at is folded apart again, as in Fig. l, leaving the neck-piece e beneath the strap f, while the head-piece d prevents the spontaneous separation'of one end of the strap from the other.

The modification which is shown in Figs. 4 and 5 differs from the device shown in Figs. 1 and 2 simply in having more than one strap f, thus giving more friction to the device when it is closed, and permitting a more perfect adjustment of the tie-band as to length. The head d, it is clear, must have projecting side pieces, 9 g, which, in closing or opening the strap, are folded under the middle portion of the head, as indicated in Figs. 3 and 6.

I claim- The tie-band for packages, the same being constructed with an enlarged head-piece, d, at one end, and with two or more incisions, a b, at the other end, all arranged so that, in closing or opening the band, the sides 9 g of the headpiece must be folded under the middle of the same, substantially as specified.

RALPH TRAUTMANN.

Witnesses:

T. B. MosHER, F. v. BRIEsEN. 

